Camping is awesome

Love Camping, wish i could go more often.

As for cooking equipment depends if you are going for gas or fire.

Gas, you can just use your old spare pots from home

Fire, invest in a good dutch oven. Use it like a crockpot, embers underneath and on top.

I went camping over the weekend - made me gain weight though.
All one-pot recipes are great. We've discovered a great one with chicken fillet, onion, mushroom, french onion soup mix and a can of coke. Sounds ridiculous but is very yummy.

I'm going camping for the first time ever in June. I'm a real city girl but I love going down to the country, especially the wine region. But of course, I always stay in houses or hotels. This time I'll be roughing it in a tent in the middle of winter... Bugs and wild animals freak me out so it's going to be an interesting experience!!

Love to raft and camp. As my girls were growing up I had several Camper Vans. '69 VW. '87 Westfalia. '95 Eurovan. I considered it luxury camping.

Now that all the girls are out of the house, we rarely camp. Usually find a lodge or hotel when we raft.

The rare ocassions that I camp now, it's from the back of my motorcycle. Over the years, though, I have collected a lot of camping essentials that can be stacked on my bike. Tents, Chairs, Stoves, etc..

We are big campers. We purchased a nice, used Pop-Up Trailer last year and went camping 6 times from July - Sept. We have 3 trips already planned for this summer. It is a great family activity and lots of fun!

I am an old, die-hard camper. I haven't been in a few years though. But I used to go tent camping up the length of California. I usually go alone. For me solo tent camping is when I recharge my emotional and spiritual batteries.

So many people focus on food when they camp. I do not. I have always said that if I could go camping for a year, I'd come home thin. I ate very light and easy. I walked a lot.

I swear, I could live in a tent and be happy. It's one of my passions, tent camping.

Mine you, I do enjoy when my husband has gone, but we have different styles of camping and he just doesn't enjoy camping like I do. To him it seems like a hardship. To me it is a joy. He prepares way too much food and there's no place to store it, so he eats it. LOL He is very good about sleeping, no complaints, but I know he'd be more comfortable in our bed at home.

And when he travels, he likes to fly. I don't fly, period. So, we've been married going on 40 years and have taken most of our vacations separately. People are often aghast at that, but my husband and I are very close and good together. We trust each other completely and without reservation. So, it works for us, or has worked for us, all those years.

In recent years I've worried about leaving him at home alone due to a heart condition he has. So, I miss my camping adventures greatly. But I love him more than I do camping.

I'm 'mmmporkrinds' sister - I went on the camping trip with her last week. It was FANTASTIC! We did focus on the food quite a lot, but we almost always do (which is how we ended up in an overweight pickle in the first place...). We both enjoy cooking, but now we're embracing whole food, and ate incredibly well last week. Quinoa-stuffed baked capsicum (done in the embers of the campfire), a delicious fritatta made with natural yoghurt instead of milk (forgot to take milk with us), ratatouille, loads of salads, avocado on toast-a-la-campfire, and a cheeky little chickpea stew as well.

Plus the ubiquitous toasted marshmallows. It would be wrong not to have one or two of them.

I didn't shower for over a week, we encounted plenty of bugs (including an enormous and frankly terrifying spider), and I came home with more mosquito bites than I could possibly count. But my god - we're totally doing that again! Loved it.

I love camping! It is so much fun. Totally relaxing and calm.

Camping is the best! We go several times each summer. Now that I have young kids, I go "car camping" exclusively, meaning that I pitch my tent in state and national parks. These campsites always have a fire pit and grill. (The downside is, of course, that they also have more noisy people! But I just don't feel comfortable taking my kids off the grid yet.)

Anyway, one of my favorite camping recipes is beer butt chicken. Since beer is pretty much a staple of camping anyway, all you need to bring extra is the chicken! http://allrecipes.com/recipe/beer-butt-chicken/

I Love camping. Miss it.

I went once.....all we did was drink. Don't remember much but it was a good time. Now I know why people in the 1600's were alcoholics. Without technology or light bulbs what else is there to do but drink and fornicate LMAO

We have a 20' pop up tent camper and love to camp here in the Black Hills. Problem is, my daughter is 15 and wants to start working this summer. Son turns 15 next summer and he'll want the same. Teens aren't real big on camping with their folks so i think our family camping days are winding down. Guess we'll have to concentrate on water skiing and wakeboarding.

LOVE camping. We go tent camping every year. Used to go a few times a year but work schedules and vacations got in the way. Nothing more relaxing to me than sitting around a campfire and listening to the crickets chirp. We hike, my friend plays guitar, sometimes we goof around any play hide 'n seek in the woods.
My husband keeping talking about wanting to go winter or fall camping. I'm ont he fence about that one because I am always so cold! But wow do I wish it was warm enough to go camping right now....*sigh*

I like hobo packets - pile veggies, a squirt of olive oil and lemon, S&P on a square of tin foil. Fold up the edges tight, put it in the fire! Enjoy a little later with some state park toilet water hooch.

We used to camp every year :bigsmile: mostly Caravan Parks or tent. But now our kids are old and it's a miracle when they want to do stuff with us.

I miss my camping adventure :sad: